Japanese “here” button

What 🈁 means

The katakana ココ (koko) in a box, Japanese for 'here'. It points to a place: this spot, this one, right here.

In Japan 🈁 can mark a location or a 'we are here' point on a sign or map. Outside Japan it is rare, most readers cannot read it, and some people use it only for its look.

Facts

Japanese “here” button 🈁 is an emoji in the symbols category, under alphanum. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :koko: or :japanese_here_button:. People also look for it with words like “Japanese”, “button”, “here”, or “katakana”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

symbols · Unicode 6.0